Jude Curtin
@covres.bsky.social
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Well, except polio, rickets and things like that...
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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this is the logic of a four year old
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
this is the logic of a four year old
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Brighton want to sign #ManCity goalkeeper Oliver Whatmuff (18), but will have to find £10M for a permanent deal. Brentford are also interested in the teenager - who is currently on loan at Rochdale.
[Alan Nixon]
[Alan Nixon]
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Brighton want to sign #ManCity goalkeeper Oliver Whatmuff (18), but will have to find £10M for a permanent deal. Brentford are also interested in the teenager - who is currently on loan at Rochdale.
[Alan Nixon]
[Alan Nixon]
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On this day in 1989, The Simpsons officially premiered as its own series so here’s a short thread of language facts relating to the show, starting with this…
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On this day in 1989, The Simpsons officially premiered as its own series so here’s a short thread of language facts relating to the show, starting with this…
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
In the Spanish version of The Simpsons, Bart’s “eat my shorts” catchphrase is changed to multiplícate por cero (“multiply yourself by zero”).
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Facebook reminding me of that time, 12 years ago, when I visited The Natural History Museum to see their exhibition on people from Great Yarmouth.
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Facebook reminding me of that time, 12 years ago, when I visited The Natural History Museum to see their exhibition on people from Great Yarmouth.
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And now I find out that The Salt Path wasn't even published by a real penguin.
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
And now I find out that The Salt Path wasn't even published by a real penguin.
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“If anything, him taking money from the nonce meant there was less money for noncing, and for that we should be giving him a medal”
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“If anything, him taking money from the nonce meant there was less money for noncing, and for that we should be giving him a medal”
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."
He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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‘So what are you up to tonight?’: meeting Rob Reiner was like a visit from Santa
‘So what are you up to tonight?’: meeting Rob Reiner was like a visit from Santa
Within 30 seconds, the director set me completely at ease and – rare for such a Hollywood heavyweight – beamed with pride when I asked about his golden streak
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‘So what are you up to tonight?’: meeting Rob Reiner was like a visit from Santa
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The only logical explanation for this abomination is that the entire film is a cunning plot by venture capitalists to try and make AI slop look good by comparison.
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The only logical explanation for this abomination is that the entire film is a cunning plot by venture capitalists to try and make AI slop look good by comparison.
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obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin
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Tech Christmas
Tom Fishburne, Marketoonist
Tom Fishburne, Marketoonist
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Tech Christmas
Tom Fishburne, Marketoonist
Tom Fishburne, Marketoonist
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🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
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Everyone has been getting richer over the past 30 years. The super rich have been increasing their wealth much faster than the rest though. This means inequality increased too.
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Everyone has been getting richer over the past 30 years. The super rich have been increasing their wealth much faster than the rest though. This means inequality increased too.
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I am losing oil platforms in a land war to a country without a navy in a sea they don't even border.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
Russian channels report that drones disabled the "Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft" platform on the northern Caspian Sea shelf.
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I am losing oil platforms in a land war to a country without a navy in a sea they don't even border.
I remain a master strategist.
I remain a master strategist.
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Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Goddam why does 1918 go so hard
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New crap publisher alert: Zenith Whispering Pines Publishers, who love to slap an AI cover on a classic and not bother counting the fingers.
December 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New crap publisher alert: Zenith Whispering Pines Publishers, who love to slap an AI cover on a classic and not bother counting the fingers.
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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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dead internet theory was just slightly ahead of its time
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
dead internet theory was just slightly ahead of its time
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Julie knew her killer - seatbelt road safety advert
YouTube video by Car Keys UK
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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NI road safety ads have been particularly grotesque. Here's a famous one from 2000 (second only to the one where an entire field of schoolchildren get flattened by a car):
DOE - Shame (2000, Northern Ireland)
YouTube video by The Hall of Advertising
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NI road safety ads have been particularly grotesque. Here's a famous one from 2000 (second only to the one where an entire field of schoolchildren get flattened by a car):
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This fits into my theory that reality television was the beginning of the end of Western Civilisation
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This fits into my theory that reality television was the beginning of the end of Western Civilisation
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Politicians stunned that politicians lie to the public
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Politicians stunned that politicians lie to the public
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.